From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Smith Subject: Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel? Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:20:41 +1030 Message-ID: <20091015072041.6ebae736@opy.nosense.org> References: <903D7FEC-34E8-4F70-ABC0-E56A3A5FBBE6@ntop.org> <20091014.131526.181354809.davem@davemloft.net> <20091014.132911.174712308.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , bcook@bpointsys.com, brad.doctor@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Luca Deri Return-path: Received: from smtp4.adam.net.au ([202.136.110.247]:37558 "EHLO smtp4.adam.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756549AbZJNUve (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:51:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Luca, David, On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:17 +0200 Luca Deri wrote: > David > so do you want me to start porting PF_RING facilities into PF_PACKET? > As I have said I;m not against this: my goal is to include this work > into the linux kernel, as it has been separate for too long. > I'd like to see that. One of my main uses for Linux is as a network troubleshooting "pocket knife", so anything that can improve or make more functional the packet capturing capabilities is really appreciated by people like me. Thanks, Mark. > Luca > > On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:29 PM, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Luca Deri > > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:26:25 +0200 > > > >> I agree that some PF_RING features could be merged into > >> PF_PACKET. However PF_RING is not just about improving packet capture > >> but it implements facilities that can be used by many monitoring > >> applications including, packet balancing, reflection, layer-7 packet > >> filtering, pf_ring socket clustering just to name a few. You can read > >> about PF_RING feature into this tutorial: > >> http://luca.ntop.org/IM2009_Tutorial.pdf > > > > I've already researched several times what PF_RING does and > > is capable of doing, and my position still stands that none of > > it can't be added to existing facilities. > > > > It's been an out of tree hack for years, and if it stays as > > a seperate facility it's likely to stay that way. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html